Use with caution: The perils of Wikipedia CNN (Nov 4)
Michael Gorman, former president of the American Library Association, said that "that Google and Wikipedia were creating a generation of "intellectual sluggards incapable of moving beyond the Internet," with no interest in exploring non-digital resources."
Article recaps several instances from the past couple of years where Wikipedia entries had been vandalized, were intentional hoaxes, or were edited by the "self-interested" - companies specifically.
Citizendium, also a wiki-based encyclopedia, might be a competitor one day -- its aim is to become "the world's most trusted knowledge base" - but it has only 3,000 articles, and Wikipedia has 2 million.
Posted by Gwen at November 4, 2007 11:20 AM